Tyson Terry is set to play college football at Nebraska next season. The four-star defensive line recruit finished his undefeated high school wrestling career on Sunday at 169-0 with a torn ACL.
But here’s the thing… he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in… OCTOBER!!!
Terry hails from Omaha and chose to play college football for his home state program over seven other scholarship offers from Colorado, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Minnesota and Vanderbilt. He ranks as one of the Top 50 defensive lineman in the recruiting Class of 2025 and a Top 500 prospect overall. Some sights consider him to be a three-star. Others rate him as a four-star.
None of that is real. Tyson Terry is an absolute dog.
📹 [ @tyson_terryyy ] pic.twitter.com/ucZnSf4J0G
— Nebraska Football (@HuskerFootball) December 4, 2024
To be quite honest, I was not familiar with the 6-foot-3, 305-pound defensive lineman prior to the weekend. I will never neglect him again.
Terry won his fourth-straight Nebraska high school wrestling championship on Sunday in the heavyweight division. He finished his career at a perfect 169-0. Never lost!
🤼♂️ Future Husker Makes History 🤼♂️
— Matt Sottile (@MSottileTV) February 23, 2025
Here was the moment Tyson Terry completed his perfect 169-0 high school career.
The #Huskers football commit becomes the first wrestler in state history to win four titles at heavyweight. 🥇🥇🥇🥇@KETV | @tyson_terryyy | #nebpreps pic.twitter.com/aAXs9gOCKN
That by itself is cool. There are some real monsters wrestling in the Cornhusker State and Terry beat them all. Literally all of them. And it gets even more impressive when you realize he wrestled the majority (if not entirety) of his senior season on one knee.
Tyson Terry tore his ACL during a football game in OCTOBER! He decided to push surgery to the offseason so he could continue to compete on the mat and became the 30th wrestler in state history to author a perfect record and the first heavyweight to do so. Here is what he had to say after the win:
Tyson Terry (@tyson_terryyy) takes home the🥇
— Matt Frieda (@mattfriedatv) February 23, 2025
The future #Husker reveals he fought through a torn ACL that he suffered during football season to complete a perfect 169-0 high school wrestling career.
He becomes the 30th #NebPreps wrestler to author a perfect record and the… pic.twitter.com/GAsMaofHPV
Matt Rhule and Nebraska’s first-year defensive line coach Terry Bradden are going to love their incoming freshman. Recruiting ranking be damned, his work ethic, toughness and resilience are traits you simply cannot coach. The Cornhuskers are chomping at the bit to get him in the system and mold him into a Big Ten defensive lineman. Tyson Terry, remember the name!